You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it’s read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
OLIVER STONEEvery movie requires its own style. Just be honest to the story. Tell the story in the best possible way that is different, exciting and original.
More Oliver Stone Quotes
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I feel like I am what I am.
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Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It’s an ideological thing.
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I’m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I think our life is a series of adventures.
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I’m more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.
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What Chavez has done [in Venezuela] is that he has brought extreme poverty to an end.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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I don’t want to make a half-assed film. It’s not my area of expertise.
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Football is mesmerizing, because it’s a figurative war. You go in one direction till you get there, but you get there as a team, not as an individual. Players bond whether they’re black or white, much as soldiers do.
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I’ve changed my style constantly, so I’m not sure I have one defined style, except perhaps style of subject matter.
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The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
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JFK was leading the world, leading the United States into a new position with the Soviet Union. He was calling for the end of the Cold War. He would have been reelected in 1964 because he was vastly popular.
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I might as well be myself. Everyone else is taken.
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It’s interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that’s when many people embraced liberalism.
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